So I participated in two threads on Feministe over the past few days. I hardly ever comment on big blogs, but this time I couldn’t help myself because everyone was arguing about something I started noticing a while ago, namely, the upper-middle class American tendency to propose individual consumerist solutions to systemic problems. Want [...]
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what, you mean I can’t consume my way out of global capitalism?
Posted in Consumerism, tagged Reasons to drink on July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How not to say “I love you”
Posted in Consumerism, Feminism on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For the past month, I’ve had a seasonal job selling jewelry in a large department store. Most of the merchandise is expensive and, in my opinion, ugly. But, as retail jobs go, it really hasn’t been so bad. And now that I’ve sufficiently damned it with faint praise, I’ll even go so far as to [...]
the wild west (of pregnancy)
Posted in Consumerism, Feminism on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Times has a fascinating piece on the woolly legal issues surrounding surrogacy, highlighted by a sad, complicated case in Michigan. The short version of the story: an infertile couple, the Kehoes, created embryos with donor eggs and sperm. They then selected a surrogate, Laschell Baker, to carry the pregnancy to term. The Kehoes [...]
On second thought, he probably just took his son to Hooter’s so he could blog about it.
Posted in Consumerism, Sexism, Stupidity on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today my ex-boyfriend (who knows me well) sent me this little gem of a blogpost. It’s written by a guy–no, a dad–who got in some really precious father-son bonding time by taking his eleven year old to that exemplar of family-style chain restaurants, Hooters. The post and its comments are chock-full of stupidity, and I [...]
Sexism & Commodification
Posted in Consumerism, Feminism on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some British politicians are calling for a ban on photoshopping images in advertising aimed at children. They also want mandatory disclaimers to accompany images marketed toward adults which detail the extent to which the images have been retouched.
